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As published in Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation By Emma Rosenthal I:  Year: 1969 “Good Germans,” my father muttered as we walked from door to door petition in hand, collecting signatures, working for an end to the war in Vietnam.  Some yelled at us to “go back to Russia!” Others politely said [...]

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By Elise Hendrick Opportunism makes strange bedfellows. How else can Jeff Blankfort’s prominence in what is supposedly a Palestinian solidarity movement be explained? The Lobby Hypothesis Blankfort’s basic claim is that a Jewish Lobby has absolute control over US policy in the Middle East. This is hardly a novel claim – it’s been advanced by [...]

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For KPFK listeners, interested in more information: To buy the book: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/cafe-intifada-shoppe-available-now-shifting-sands-jewish-american-women-confront-the-israeli-occupation/ Information on the upcoming readings: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/¡cafe-intifada-events-and-activities/ for information on the blacklisting: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/anatomy-of-a-blacklisting-a-thread-in-two-blogs/ Emma Rosenthal: http://home.earthlink.net/~emmarosenthal/ and http://emmarosenthal.wordpress.com/ In Bed With Frida Kahlo: http://inbedwithfridakahlo.wordpress.com/ Cindy Sheehan on line: http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/ http://peaceoftheaction.org/

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Facebook Status Montage   Facebook provides an amazing network of activists, writers, photographers, artists.  Here are commentaries by some of my facebook (and in some cases, real life) friends, allies, comrades.  Majed Abusalama “All Gaza people are praying in solidarity with our friends in the flotilla , Gaza is so angry now , Mosques is [...]

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The newly released book, Shifting Sands, Jewish American Women Confront the Occupation, edited by Osie Adelfang, with forwards by Amira Hass and Cindy Sheehan, and contributions from Cafe Intifada’s Emma Rosenthal as well as: Hanna Mermelstein,  Tomi Laine Clark, Starhawk, Alice Rothchild, Hedy Epstein,  Sandra Butler, Kim Goldberg, Maia Ettinger, Anna Baltzar, Linda Dittmar and Susan [...]

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By Emma Rosenthal Posted on the 40th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre.  Written on the 30th anniversary of the massacre.  On a campus that was 5% Jewish.  75% of the students killed, and 50% of the students who were shot, were Jewish– no word from the ADL.  (bold text by Neil Young)   “ [...]

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when the zionist jewish establishment descended on the teachers union in los angeles, after years of monitoring our activities, attacking a class taught at the union hall by the afsc, and attacking a meeting hosted by the human rights committee of the union (utla) to discuss bds, and specifically calling on utla to disassociate from [...]

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A Cafe Intifada response to demands made by Stand With Us* ______________________________________________ This week, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke as a guest of the UC Irvine Law School.  Eleven students were arrested and may yet be EXPELLED because each uttered one sentence and then walking peacefully out of the hall. Zionist, right wing organization, “Stand [...]

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we wonder if any educators in l.a. would be interested in organizing an exhibit of the art work of the children of gaza?  maybe hosted by utla?  human rights committee? progressive educators?  the iso or solidarity?  the jewish labor committee? coalition against (oops, my bad, they changed their name) for alternatives to militarism in the [...]

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Uzi Silber for coining the term,  ”the Jew Flu” Throughout years of European history, Jews were accused of casting spells, causing illness,  (often not getting sick themselves- usually because the illnesses were caused by the eating of pork and living in close proximity with pigs).   Jews were also blamed for the plague and the death [...]

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